Printing with Samba and Intel Inbusiness printstation?

[Eddie Lania]

That's propably why Intel has stopped there support on this product :-)))
But hey, who can blame them since Microsoft invented NT (Neanderthaler
Technology).

Eddie.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher R. Hertel" <crh at ubiqx.mn.org>
To: "Eddie Lania" <e.lania at home.nl>
Cc: <samba-technical at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: Printing with Samba and Intel Inbusiness printstation?


> It would be interesting to see the Negotiate Protocol exchange.  It sounds
> as though the print station is using an older dialect.
>
> Chris -)-----
>
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:00:42PM +0200, Eddie Lania wrote:
> > Hello folks,
> >
> > Regarding the story below, has there ever been done some effort to
acomplish
> > this?
> > We use several of these so called "windows print stations" at work, but
> > whatever I have tried with samba, cups, etc, I can't get it to work.
> > Perhaps this is an issue that has allready been solved in the past, but
I
> > couldn't find anything in this direction.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Eddie.
> >
> > -----------------------
> >
> >
> > From: "Wim Verhoogt"
> > Subject: Printing on printers connected to Intel InBusiness print
> >   stations
> > Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 18:44:39 +0200
> >
> > L.S.,
> >
> > I've been struggling to print with Intel InBusiness print stations.
These
> > stations are labeled as "for use with Windows only" by Intel.
> > I found out that they emulate a Windows machine exporting two printer
> > shares, one for each connector. The NetBIOS name of the stations is the
> > Device ID, and the shares are //device_id/Printer1 and
//device_id/Printer2
> > I tried to print to these shares with smbclient's print command, but
> > received various errors.
> > Some reverse-engineering (tcpdump is your  friend :-) ) showed that you
have
> > to specify a remote filename of DEV\LPT1 (or  DEV\LPT2 for the 2nd
share -
> > haven't tested that), and that SMB_COM_WRITE (0x0B)  must be used to
write
> > to the share. Smbclient uses WRITE_COM_ANDX (0x2F). This doesn't return
an
> > error, but garbles the print data.
> > I've patched smbclient to support this. I implemented a new option (-H)
> > which will direct smbclient to write using SMB_COM_WRITE. The put
command
> > can now be used to print to the InBusiness stations. The print command
won't
> > work because it doesn't support specifying a remote filename.With this
hack
> > and a CUPS backend script, my server now exports 3 printers, connected
to
> > these stations, and I'm happy :-)
> > I was wondering if this new feature of smbclient can be incorporated in
the
> > official SAMBA distribution, so that I don't need to patch smbclient for
> > each new release. I doubt that the new -H option is the best way to do
that,
> > it just happened to be a quick and easy way to solve my problem.
> >
> > The patch used was:
> >
> > --- client.c Fri Jul  6 04:01:20 2001
> > +++ /home/wim/cvs/samba/source/client/client.c Mon Jul  9 16:33:41 2001
> > @@ -79,6 +79,7 @@
> >  BOOL prompt = True;
> >
> >  int printmode = 1;
> > +BOOL inBusiness_hack = False;
> >
> >  static BOOL recurse = False;
> >  BOOL lowercase = False;
> > @@ -1031,8 +1032,10 @@
> >     DEBUG(0,("Error reading local file: %s\n", strerror(errno) ));
> >     break;
> >    }
> > -
> > -  ret = cli_write(cli, fnum, 0, buf, nread, n);
> > +  if (inBusiness_hack)
> > +      ret = cli_smbwrite(cli, fnum, buf, nread, n);
> > +  else
> > +      ret = cli_write(cli, fnum, 0, buf, nread, n);
> >
> >    if (n != ret) {
> >     DEBUG(0,("Error writing file: %s\n", cli_errstr(cli)));
> > @@ -2415,7 +2418,7 @@
> >   }
> >
> >   while ((opt =
> > -  getopt(argc, argv,"s:O:R:M:i:Nn:d:Pp:l:hI:EU:L:t:m:W:T:D:c:b:A:")) !=
> > EOF) {
> > +  getopt(argc, argv,"s:O:R:M:i:Nn:d:Pp:l:hI:EU:L:t:m:W:T:D:c:b:A:H"))
!=
> > EOF) {
> >    switch (opt) {
> >    case 's':
> >     pstrcpy(servicesf, optarg);
> > @@ -2571,6 +2574,9 @@
> >     break;
> >    case 'b':
> >     io_bufsize = MAX(1, atoi(optarg));
> > +   break;
> > +  case 'H':
> > +   inBusiness_hack = True;
> >     break;
> >    default:
> >     usage(pname);
> >
> > --__--__--
> >
> >
>
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